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Playin’ jane JonWalfer/DN Kathy Tejcka of Allas Jane performs Wednesday night at Duffy's bar. Alias Jane was part of Womanstock, a concert sponsored by the National Organization for Women. Brass ensemble to close season By Jeff Randall Staff Reporter The Canadian Brass will close the 1994 95 Lied Center for Performing Arts season with a concert Saturday night at 8. - As one of the world’s most popular chamber ensembles, the Cana dian Brass has spent 25 years entertaining audi ences throughout the world. Dennis Schneider, pro fessor of trumpet at the University of Nebraska Lincoln School of Mu sic, said Saturday’s per formance was sure to please everyone who attended. “They are five of the best brass players in the world,” Schneider said, “and their mis sion is to bring the world’s best music to the public and to play it as beautifully as could possibly be done.” The ensemble includes trumpeters Frederick Mills and Ronald Romm, David Ohanian on French hom, Eugene Watts on trombone and Charles Daellenbach on tuba. Having seen and performed with the quintet on previous occasions, Schneider said the Canadian Brass deserved every bit of its success and renown. “They are entertainers as well as musi cians,” he said. “They put on a show that it is impossible not to love.” Two pre-performance talks will be given by the Rev. Jack Levick, artistic director for Abendmusik: Lincoln and minister of mu sic and fine arts at First Plymouth Congre gational Church. The talks will be 55 min utes and 30 minutes before curtain. Tickets for Saturday’s performance are $24, $20 and $16, half price for students, and are available at the Lied Center box office. Photo courtesy of IMG Artiste The Canadian Brass will play at the Lied Center Saturday at 8p.m. CD-ROM Increases options By Joel Strauch Senior Reporter Remember when your parents thought a CD was a certificate of deposit? What do they think a CD-ROM is? Whatever it is, it*s taking the com puter scene by storm. Daryl Auman, the manager of CD ROM World, 3130 O St., said a CD ROM was a computer-accessible com pact disc with 600 times the storage space of a disk. “They’re as cheap to produce as a diskette, and unless you scratch them or break them in half, they’re indestruc tible,” Auman said. See CD-ROM reviews on page 16. Because a CD-ROM has a huge stor ' age capacity, it can use video from a laser disk, he said. “When you play a game with live video, it’s more of a movie than a game,” he said. “In some games, you can shoot at live video objects with a gun and they react instantaneously. There’s no jerk ing or stopping.” jen mctumo!), a uevciopcr ior Compudesign Group Ltd., 770 N. Cotner Blvd., said CD-ROMs had greatly influ enced the multimedia capabilities of computers. “Multimedia is the ability to perform high-quality sound and VCR quality video on your computer,” McCombs said. Video is notoriously large in data size, he said. “Hard drives aren’t really big enough to handle it, but CD-ROMs have a larger capacity and you don’t have to worry about it taking up hard drive space,” he said. Auman said that was one of the main appeals of CD-ROM for the average computer user. “Some of the games that were coming out had six or seven or eight diskettes that would take up to 40 meg (mega bytes) on your hard drive,” he said/ “Now they can use one CD-ROM and take up no space on the hard drive.” To meet the increased demand, Ne braska Bookstore, 1300 Q St. Just opened a multimedia department. Steve Curtis, who works in the new department, said the bookstore already had sold some of the software but had recently tripled its capacity. “It seems like around 40 percent of - the software published is on CD-ROM right now,” Curtis said. me muitimeaia stun nas picieea up considerably; there’s a lot more titles coming out.” They’re easy to install, and that makes them very popular, Curtis said. “They also have a lot more graphics and soundtracks because of their capac ity.” The relative inexpensiveness of the CD-ROM drives makes them even more attractive. “You can add a CD-ROM, soundcard and speakers (the multimedia standards) to an existing computer for only $200 or $300,” Auman said. “And depending on what you’re looking for, the CD-ROMs run from $12 to $100 and anywhere in between.” However, information on CD-ROMS can’t be written on to the disks with a normal drive. “They already have writers out today, hit they run around $2000. That puts them out of the normal users range, but they’ll be in homes in the future,” he said.